reasonable limits
Sensible stopping points
Reasonable limits are restrictions or boundaries that most people would consider fair and appropriate under the circumstances.
The phrase appears often in legal and policy contexts, where rights may be curtailed but only within reasonable limits: Freedom of speech has reasonable limits.
What counts as reasonable depends on context—a reasonable limit on noise differs from a reasonable limit on government power.
- boundariesLines marking separation
- line in the sandUncompromising boundary declared
- red linesNon-negotiable boundaries
- constraintsLimits on action
- moderationAvoidance of excess
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- Charter Rightsfundamental freedoms, legal rights, equality rights, democratic rights, language rights
- Canadian Constitutionconstitutional amendment, 1867, 1982, division of powers, federal powers
- Canadian lawfederal laws, criminal code, court decisions, Supreme Court of Canada, judgments
reasonable limitsanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
anything goes · free-for-all · laissez-faire · no limits · lawlessness
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